Built by people who've worked on the water.
We're not a generic SaaS company that discovered maritime. Our team includes former vessel captains, operators, and engineers who built the tool they wished existed.
Our team's combined time on the water
years of combined experience on the water
From New Zealand fishing runs to Mediterranean charters to commercial ferry ops — our team has been on vessels their entire lives.
Where we started
Vessel Vanguard started the way the best maritime tools always do — on the water, with a problem that kept showing up and wouldn't go away. After more than a decade running maritime operations and building software for high-stakes environments, our founders kept running into the same wall: the tools available to operators were either stuck in the past or priced for multinational shipping lines. Neither one worked for the people actually running vessels.
Paper logbooks got lost. Spreadsheets fell apart the moment a fleet grew past a handful of vessels. And the enterprise systems that could theoretically handle it? Completely out of reach for a commercial charter captain, a ferry operator, or a tourism fleet running on thin margins. So we built the platform we wished existed — one that takes compliance, maintenance, safety, and inspections seriously without requiring a dedicated IT team to run it.
Today, Vessel Vanguard is trusted by operators across commercial passenger, workboat, patrol, research, tourism, charter, and recreational sectors — managing everything from routine maintenance to full regulatory compliance on a single platform that scales from one vessel to a hundred.
Who built this
Brian Hagan
CEO
Has owned and operated vessels for over a decade. Brian was a Vessel Vanguard user before he was its owner — he loved the platform so much he acquired the company to take it further.
Kylie Tomlin
President
Former vessel captain and founder of SeaLogs. Kylie ran boats before she ran product. She knows what it actually feels like to be responsible for a vessel and crew.
Our Engineering Team
Built for operational environments
Developers who have built software for high-stakes industries where getting the small stuff wrong has real consequences.
Vessel Vanguard + SeaLogs
In 2026, Vessel Vanguard joined forces with SeaLogs — the award-winning digital logbook platform trusted by maritime operators worldwide. This isn't just a product update. It's two teams who both started on the water, building the unified platform the industry has needed. One login. Everything you need to run a compliant, well-maintained vessel.
Read the full announcement →The Name
What is a vanguard?
van·guard
/ ˈvanˌɡärd / · noun
The leading force of an advancing group — the front unit that sets the pace, faces what's ahead first, and protects those that follow. Historically, the advance guard: the people who get there before everyone else and make sure the path is clear.
The operators and captains who use Vessel Vanguard aren't reactive. They're out in front — scheduling maintenance before something fails, building compliance records before the inspector shows up, running safety checks before a voyage instead of filing incident reports after one.
A vanguard doesn't wait for problems to show up. It moves first. That's the only approach that actually works in maritime operations — and it's the approach every feature in this platform is built around.
If you're reading this, you probably already think that way. That's why you're here.
Who we are
We're maritime operators, software engineers, product designers, and compliance people who spend an unreasonable amount of time thinking about how to make vessel management less painful. Our team has worked on commercial vessels, consulted for government marine units, and built software for operational environments where getting the small stuff wrong has real consequences. That's the group building Vessel Vanguard — and it shows in how the product works.
Meet the leadership team →
Who we built this for
If you operate vessels for a living, this is for you. We built Vessel Vanguard for the operators running commercial passenger ferries, charter fleets, workboats, patrol vessels, tourism operations, and recreational fleets that have outgrown spreadsheets. Not for the Fortune 500 shipping line with a dedicated IT team. For the captain-owner managing 4 vessels. The fleet manager juggling 20. The operator who gets called at 6am when something breaks.
"We operate six vessels on a year-round schedule. Vessel Vanguard gave us the compliance visibility we needed to stop reacting to problems and start preventing them. We passed our last USCG inspection without a single deficiency."
Operations Director
Scheduled Ferry Service
Experts in vessel management
Our platform has become the operational backbone for a growing roster of marine operators — keeping vessels compliant, crews prepared, and fleets running without the paperwork pile.
3,000+
Vessels managed
10,000+
Work orders completed
50,000+
Compliance tasks logged
15+
Countries served
Across the globe
We've built the team around the water our customers work on. With people across North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific, there's a Vessel Vanguard expert available when your vessel is underway — wherever in the world that happens to be. All support runs through our US team, so you always reach someone who knows the platform.
We'd rather talk to you than pitch you.
Book a 20-minute call with Rhiannon. She's spent years in the maritime industry — she understands the space, the operators, and the problems you're trying to solve. No sales script. Just an honest conversation about whether Vessel Vanguard is right for your operation.